A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

He is never likely to have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask a price